Love Vine tendril
Love Vine, a perfect Valentine’s Day plant.
I am taking a Florida Native Plants class and this is a new plant to me. It is very common in Florida Scrub habitat. The book describes it as a parasitic vine that looks like yellow spaghetti.
Not sure why that reminds anyone of love, being smothered in yellow spaghetti.
Love is like being wrapped in a warm blanket of pasta, maybe?
Happy Valentine’s Day to all.
Amy
The Shrub Queen 
Interesting, it reminds me of the Cuscata (dodder) that you see in the UK and Australia – I’ve some in my garden trying to smother an azalea which I periodically have to lift off.
Maybe it’s a love vine as in “I’d love for you to take this thing off me!”
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interesting dodder grows here as well On Feb 14, 2015 5:38 PM, “The Shrub Queen” wrote:
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Dodder is here as well – this is the native version. I have never seen either of these plants before living in Florida.
We have Love Grass in the US for stabilizing slopes, called that because it hangs on like love!!
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